Sunday, 31 July 2011

The picnic blanket is coming along nicely and it's a good way of using up all the balls of wool in my bag, our local wool shop has a big "reduced" basket of wool on the floor for only £1 a ball so I get a few balls whenever I'm passing

it still needs a few rounds adding to it and a nice edging but that's on the "back burner" for now as I've been stitching more brooches!!!

Let me introduce you to "Edgarina" she was supposed to be called "Edgar" but with those lips I decided "Edgorina" was a more suitable name (ok so I've lost the plot !! lol)

Another little brooch I knitted and it looks quite nice on my dark orangy coloured top, I love the ceramic heart button from "daisy moon"

This is a wristlet made from a pink liberty cotton with a gorgeous ceramic butterfly button sewn on and a jelly tag,

and finally, two watches, this one says 4 o' clock so it's always "time for tea"

and this one is set at 10 to 2, time to "sit and knit"!!

So that's my haul for this month have you made any nice bit's 'n pieces?

Sunday, 24 July 2011

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

I've been on my jollies to the wonderful Tenerife where it was lovely hot sunshine every day for a fortnight, just laying on a sunbed drinking cocktails and dipping in and out of the pool when it was too hot, and now we're back home and it's been rain, rain, rain.

Don't you just hate that, you want to show off your tan but all you can see from under the brolly is your nose end!! Never mind, as usual we had a marvellous time and we decided to go for a ride on a camel which wasn't as frightening as I thought it was going to be

"up you get matey"

and we're off!!

We saw a mother and a six day old baby camel, it's coat was a bit like a sheep's all soft and cuddly

isn't she gorgeous???

We spent a few hours on a boat in the ocean to see the whales and dolphins

these were right beside our boat and if I'd had long enough arms you could have touched them.

We usually had a walk down to the beach on a night to watch the locals "crabbing" and the sunsets were amazing

but apart from that we just sunbathed all day and read our books...ah that's the life if ever we won the lottery!!

About Me

Having recently moved from No 1 at the seaside to No3 in a lovely little village in the country my main hobby is now gardening! I also love to sew and knit and am a member of the WI and the grandma of 3 little darlings. Thanks for dropping by.